Friday, November 16, 2012
To Kill a Mockingbird's Setting the Scene
After the introduction of the book, what movie or setting do you picture when you close your eyes? Do you have a feel for the setting of Maycomb? What town do you picture, what does the Finch house look like when you close your eyes? Give examples and remember to start by giving your first name and last initial. Otherwise you wont get credit.
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BW - I see an older town, with dirt roads and houses with fences. I picture Maycomb as a town that is in between rich and poor. I think I'm just picturing a classic 1930's small town in the South. I can't think of what movie I could connect Maycomb to, but I think To Kill a Mockingbird's setting is similar to the hometown of Maya Angelou that she described in her book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
ReplyDeleteCheyenne P.- When I read To Kill A Mocking Bird, I always picture the movie A Time to Kill. It takes place in a Southern town similar to Maycomb, both having to deal with social prejudices. The town of Maycomb I picture is more older looking than the town in A Time To Kill though and everything is covered in a thin layer of dust, due to the Dust Bowl. I see an old, sort of rundown neighborhood with large houses that have been there for a long time. Every house seems alike, each having a front porch and a swinging screen door. The school Scout and Jem go to is similar to the one in The Secret School by AVI, both seeming small and a bit rundown.
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ReplyDeleteI cant think of a movie. I think the houses are like big white plantation homes. I imagine the setting would always be warm and hazy. There would be a lot of old people sitting on their porches drinking iced tea. I think the size of the town would be like Dyersville.
Brady T. - When I read How To Kill A Mocking Bird, I see the setting as an older time. I see and old one storie house that looks like its about to crumbl on top of itself. I see a large back yard with only one tree. I see it in a small old town where not that many people can walk around without going into other people's property. Maycomb, to me, is a very small and old town.
ReplyDeleteKimberly B.- When I close my eyes I picture a town where there are dirt roads and all the houses are the same. I can see houses that have a porch in the front and I can picture a run down type of town where there are people who are either poor or some what wealthy. I think of the movie The Sandlot when I read this because it reminds me of how their town looks.
ReplyDeleteOlivia N.- Although I realize there are many differences between my old house and Scout and Jem's house, that is still the exact image that comes to mind. I used to live down by Mercy hospital on a side street that was just busy enough to not play near the street. Our home was built in the early 1900's, as were all of the houses around us. Across the street, a big old white house stood with a wrap around porch and a garden on the side. This house is what I picture as Boo Radley's.
ReplyDeleteMariah J- When i close my eyes and picture Maycomb, i see it like the small town, Monticello, Iowa. Monticello is a small, run down town that doesnt have much to it, just like Maycomb. Back in the days they didnt have lots of technology or much things going on. It's kind of a dull looking town. The Finch house from the 1930s i would picture, no satellite, no color, no nothing. These two towns can be very similar in many ways.
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ReplyDeleteWhen it think of the town i see giant feilds, and a main street with small shops and stores along the sides. Then the street branches out into smaller streets whith houses going down each side.
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ReplyDeleteI think of the show called "Dukes of Hazzard" and the movie called "To kill a Mocking Bird."
Corrina S - When I read to Kill a Mockingbird I picture a small town in the south where everyone knows each other, and most people know whats going on in neighboring homes. I see the Finch home as a family with just one parent and many motherly figures surrounding them. Helping Scout and Jem learn to do the right things the best they can.
ReplyDeleteCalvin H.- when i read to kill a mocking bird i envision the town from October skys. an old town and almost all the houses have some sort of fence arount their property.
ReplyDeleteDeann O- When I read To Kill A Mocking Bird I see an old style small town like you would see in an old western type of movie. Where all the children go to a one room school house and all of the children no matter how old, are in the same room. Also all the town roads are old dirt roads like in the Western Movies. I see the Finch house like one of the creepy houses you would see in a Halloween movie, the one that everybody believes is haunted.
ReplyDeleteDeann O- I mean the Radley house
DeleteBailey P. ~ When I think of the setting in To Kill A Mockingbird, I think of a little southern town that is all black, and white. Everyone in the town keeps to themselves, and its almost like everyone has a daily routine they stick too. I picture looking down the street, and both sides of the street, seeing all of the houses looking alike, facing one another. If I had to compare it to a reading, it would be a book that I read on The Great Depression, and seeing how it affected the people, and the homes before it all happened.
ReplyDeleteJennie R- When i close my eyes i see a red dirt road, old barbed wire fence along the sides, older houses with run down front steps and windows. The finch house reminds me of an old empty house from my neighborhood, it has old creaky wooden steps, shutters that don't close completely, a screen door that hangs open a little.
ReplyDeleteKayla A. after theintroduction of the book I see the movie Friday. With the races and how the one guy has his bestfriends mom as a motherly figure just like in the story now. I picture this as just somewhere downtown at any place. The house to me seems like a place thats kinda has a rough look to it on the outside, and has a few things on the inside but not much.
ReplyDeleteAlly Z. When i think of what Maycomb look like i imagine a small old fashioned town from like an old western movie. With people walking the streets in old fashioined clothes and everyone waving and saying hello just a prefect little town; were nothing could go wrong. Even with it being a little run down its still is a perfect little town.
ReplyDeleteCelyna K- When I close my eyes I see the town of Maycomb as a cute little town. Everyones houses look similar and all have fences around their yard. I picture the Finch house as a nice house for the time period, but next door the Radley house isn't as nice and looks more rundown. Even though this is happening during the Great Depression I think everyone is this town is still nice and caring of others. I picture everyone having good southern hospitality.
ReplyDeleteCollin K.- When I picture To Kill a Mockingbird I think of the movie Stand by Me, because all the characters in both stretch the truth and believe what others say. I picture a bunch of small houses in a little town. The houses are really old and are not in very good shape. The Finch house looks in my eyes a big house because Atticus is a lawyer and they make the big bucks so I picture a big house full of nice things.
ReplyDeleteJohn K- I picture towns from the dust bowl. Yes. I picture epworth. The house looks like a two story farm house.
ReplyDeleteSpencer H- I see the town of Maycomb as an old, kind of quiet, town. Most of the people in the town mostly keep to themselves. I see the Finch house with a walkway from the roiad up to their front porch. A two story house that is starting to get old because Atticus is not making the money to keep up with it. This is because of the Great Depression.
ReplyDeleteRegan K- I see the setting of this story a lot like the the small towns in iowa. Its small and eveyone knows eveyone. I believe its an old town and a little bit remote. i picture the finch house as a bigger old house. I believe it looks like it was owned by someone important but now is run down and dirty.
ReplyDeleteAustin M.- I picture a nice southern town; the houses all have big open front porches, with perfect front yards with green grass. The finch house is just like all of the other houses, except for the radely house, it has some peeling paint, but otherwise it is in good condition.
ReplyDeleteJason K.- in to kill a mocking bird i see the town of epworth. the finch hoouse looks like mine. and the radlys house i pictur an old rickity with shuters falling off and the hole hous is make of wood and the yard is rather small with two trees in the yard with a walk way thath goes forom the sidewalk to the house. the house is in the emty lot up the block of my house. i do not think of a movie when i reed this book
ReplyDeleteAbby B- When I think of Maycomb in my mind I picture a small southern town with gravel roads and rundown houses. The houses are two stories, have a small porch in front and are all very similer in appearance. Everything is a little rundown and the radley house is creepy looking dirty and the paint is chipping. The finch house is much nicer then most of the houses due to the type of work Atticus does.
ReplyDeleteKatelyn S. When I close my eyes and picture Maycomb I see an old small town like Farley, Iowa only maybe no satellite dishes or even television antennas. Picture a non-modern "Footloose" because it has dirt roads and animals, it has a feeling of 1930's(even though they made "Footloose" the movie in the 80's). I picture the Finch's house with two stories,a brown peeked roof, and with white wood siding. I see a few small windows and a porch with a white swing with rusty chains.
ReplyDeleteAlex K- I see the To Kill a Mockingbird as an old worn down town with many abandon houses. I sort of feel like this town is similiar to the town in the book the Outsiders. In the Outsiders many people are very depressed and don't have much to look forward to. Just like in To Kill a Mockingbird because of the Great Depression.
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